I've been using AI and neural network everywhere for the past 15 years, from procedural generation, to data analytics for improving balance in multiplayer games, to AI bots, to destruction and physics in games and the list is extremely long. I never disclosed it and no one ever cared. I do not care to disclose anything just because media has chosen to make a fuss about it and create debates around it in order to create governmental control of what is perceived as a potentially dangerous weapon by the powerful. Just enjoy having games with 60 levels instead of 10 for the same price. I do understand that the AI style might not suit everyone, and that's fine, technological improvement will allow us to create better, bigger games with the styles you love and better quality as well in the future (even now, the results are miles away from what could be done back when Hentai Afterlife was done).
More like users are making a fuss about it, havent heard squat from any “media outlets”.
I care for game transparency in this respect, and I am of the same mind as other gaming platforms (market places) that AI being used and how it was should be mentioned. I dont see any real reason to not disclose it.
The only reason users are mentioning it is because of all the media fuss around AI. You do not care for game transparency, no one ever asked me anything about the tools I use, only geeks who loves technology care, no one ever cared for the tools used from a perspective of transparency, when they do it's for nothing else than love of the craft. No one ever gave a fuck if I used a destruction engine that has AI in it or not, nor did they give a fuck if I used a motion matching solution that integrates AI.
If you love video games, and want to know more on how games are made, the upside and downside of each tool used, DM me on discord, there is nothing I won't disclose. I am entirely comfortable with the tools I used, and am extremely passionate to talk about it all.
But let's be honest, you don't give a single fuck about how this game was made and what tools it used, you only care to know if graphic AI is part of it , and I'm telling you, that the only reason you care is that you're letting yourself be influenced by the latest twitter drama. Just one more bullshit drama about a new technology, that's gonna end up with a warning sticker to feel better about yourself imposed by some self righteous cunts, just like it did for the whole violence in games bullshit drama in the early 2000's.
Part of our job as game developer is to understand what gamers trully are asking for, while punching through all the noise. Some people want diversity in their games, others want less violence, others wants bigger boobs on the characters, others want deeper more meaningful artistic experience and feel like AI may destroy this aspect of games, and others think that AI is stealing jobs from artist and that they need to protect them via boycott, others just want a good game, regardless of the tools used to get the best game possible, and the list is long, and it's our job to understand which voices will end up prevailing, and what is just random noise, a fad created by a bigger media storm.
Transparency about the game experience and the game quality is of upmost importance for the gamers, and will stay so in the future.
Transparency about the tools used to make the game never mattered and never will, it's only noise.
All games you will play from now on will use in some aspect AI, regardless of if they disclose it or not, I don't know of a single Unreal Engine coder that does not use an AI to help him code, even outside gaming all code editor from visual studio and visual code are now empowered by AI, so instead of forcing everyone to add an AI sticker, maybe take some of your time to build a 'Hand-Crafted' sticker label, just like they did for some IRL goods, to cater to a small niche community for whom it may matter.
The cake is a lie, and there is no transparency, 99.99% of all studios use AI, wake up, and stop with the bullshit.
In the end, people will act as if they don't use AI while they do for some PR bullshit prompted by some twitter bullshit itself prompted by some media bullshit. And in 10 years, people will realize they all used AI regardless and will just keep buying the product. I don't want to play pretend, fuck this whole AI debate.